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Behavior management, similar to behavior modification, is a less-intensive form of behavior therapy. Unlike behavior modification, which focuses on changing behavior, behavior management focuses on maintaining positive habits and behaviors and reducing negative ones. Behavior management skills are especially useful for teachers and educators, healthcare workers, and those working in supported living communities.[1] This form of management aims to help professionals oversee and guide behavior management in individuals and groups toward fulfilling, productive, and socially acceptable behaviors.

Behavior management is a series of steps taken to help guide individuals to become motivated to change their actions and interactions.

-> 5 principles of behavior management :

• Being Respectful

• Modeling Behaviors

• Having Clear Expectations

• Maintaining Routines

• Dealing with Chronic Misbehaviors.

* There are two behavioral management models that are commonly used in facilitating children with special needs. The Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The Applied Behavior Analysis or ABA technique addresses specific and immediate behavioral issues.

* Three fundamental types of behaviour can be distinguished: the purely practical, the theoretical-practical, and the purely theoretical. These three types of behaviour have three different reasons: the first a determining reason, the second a motivating reason, and the third a supporting reason

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